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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks after the signing of an accord with Russia, at the Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Venezuelan and Russian officials met for high-level discussions in the South American country, a day after diplomats from the U.S. and several other nations gathered to discuss steps toward a negotiated solution to the country's protracted crisis. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Maduro signals interest in better Venezuela, U.S. relations

By Regina Garcia Cano and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro clasps his hands as he arrives to deliver his State of the Nation address at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Maduro, Putin talk after diplomat hints at military activity

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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2021 file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court, in Caracas, Venezuela. Recent actions by Maduro are creating a “window of opportunity” for the U.S. government to engage with a South American leadership that the Trump administration had been trying to isolate, the head of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Venezuelan lawmakers OK opposition members to election board

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JORGE RUEDA and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2019 file photo, charred trucks that were part of a humanitarian aid convoy attempting to cross into Venezuela sit parked on the Francisco de Paula Santander international bridge in Cucuta, Colombia. A new report published on April 16, 2021, by the inspector general at the U.S. Agency for International Development said the deployment of the aid was driven in part to the U.S.' pursuit of regime change rather than just technical analysis of the needs and best ways to help struggling Venezuelans. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Watchdog: US aid to Venezuela driven by more than just need

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 10, 2021 file photo, a man waits to unload bags of basic food staples, such as pasta, sugar, flour, and kitchen oil, provided residents through the CLAP government food assistance program in the Santa Rosalia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro signed a deal the week of April 23, 2021 to let the U.N. World Food Program create a program to provide school meals for 1.5 million children, after years of rejecting humanitarian aid offers as unnecessary and as veiled attempts by the U.S. and other hostile forces to destabilize his government. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Venezuela’s Maduro begins allowing aid against hunger, virus

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

Matthias Krull, a former banker for Switzerland’s Julius Baer in Venezuela, poses for a portrait at his home in Miami on March 18, 2021. For two decades, Krull played a singular role in Venezuela as the go-to private banker for government insiders, before pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in Miami federal court in 2018. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

Swiss banker to Venezuelan kleptocrats becomes star witness

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 3, 2021 file photo, youths who cull through trash for items to resell ride on the back of a garbage truck entering the Pavia landfill on the outskirts of Barquisimeto, Venezuela. A U.S. senator urged the Biden administration Tuesday, March 23, 2021, to lift a ban on diesel fuel swaps with Venezuela, adding to pressure from some Democrats and aid workers who argue sanctions are worsening the South American country's dire humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Democrat adds pressure on Biden to review Venezuela sanction

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

West African court allows extradition to US of Venezuelan

By BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

African court orders release of ally of Maduro wanted by US

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2020 file photo, Veneuzuelan security forces guard the shore and a boat in which authorities claim a group of armed men landed in the port city of La Guaira, Venezuela, calling it an armed maritime incursion from neighboring Colombia. Yacsy Álvarez, a woman who was charged in Colombia with helping organize the attempted armed invasion to overthrow Venezuela’s socialist government, says Colombian authorities were aware of the plotters’ movements and did nothing to stop them and that she’s being made a scapegoat for the sins of others who abandoned the would be rebels. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

3 Venezuelans plead guilty for aiding anti-Maduro plot

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

European Union Ambassador to Venezuela Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa leaves a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza where she was given a letter of &quot;persona non grata&quot; and given 72 hours to leave the country, at Arreaza's office in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The meeting was called after the EU sanctioned an additional 19 Venezuelans for &quot;undermining democracy and the rule of law&quot; in Venezuela and the National Assembly declared the EU ambassador &quot;persona non grata.&quot; (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Chief European Union diplomat in Venezuela leaves country

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro points to supporters during an event marking Youth Day at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual holiday commemorates young people who accompanied heroes in the battle for Venezuela's independence. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Maduro lodges new allegation of US spying on Venezuela firm

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2020 file photo, Veneuzuelan security forces guard the shore and a boat in which authorities claim a group of armed men landed in the port city of La Guaira, Venezuela, calling it an armed maritime incursion from neighboring Colombia. Yacsy Álvarez, a woman who was charged in Colombia with helping organize the attempted armed invasion to overthrow Venezuela’s socialist government, says Colombian authorities were aware of the plotters’ movements and did nothing to stop them and that she’s being made a scapegoat for the sins of others who abandoned the would be rebels. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Jailed suspect in anti-Maduro plot blames Colombia, Guaido

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuelan Carlos Marrón poses for a portrait at his home in Miami, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Marrón says the torture he endured supports a United Nation’s report that Nicolás Maduro’s government committed possible crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

AP Exclusive: Man recounts torture in Maduro’s Venezuela

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2020 file photo, a doctor takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 at the Cocodrilos Sports Park in Caracas, Venezuela. PAHO, the regional office for the World Health Organization in the Americas, said the week of Jan. 22 2021 that only 3,000, or about 1%, of the 340,000 COVID antigen testing kits sent to the country have been used. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Venezuela power struggle impedes delivery of COVID vaccine

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Venezuela’s Maduro sends oxygen to Brazil amid virus spike

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National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez gives an interview at Congress in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Rodriguez said he’s hopeful the Biden administration will roll back a “cruel” sanctions policy and instead give room for diplomacy that could lead to the reopening of the U.S. Embassy and the release of several jailed American citizens. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

AP EXCLUSIVE: Maduro ally presses for dialogue with Biden

By SCOTT SMITH and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020 file photo, U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference outside the USPS Jamaica station in the Queens borough of New York. Meeks, the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee under the Biden administration in 2021, is likely to be a key interlocutor for the incoming administration’s efforts to de-escalate tensions with Venezuela’s socialist government and negotiate an exit to the country’s political stalemate. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

NY Democrat’s ties to Maduro may help Biden unlock stalemate

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

NY Democrat’s ties to Maduro may help Biden unlock stalemate

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó holds hands with supporters during a visit to La Lucha neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Guaidó’s coalition is holding a referendum which culminates on Saturday. It asks Venezuelans at home and abroad to say whether they wish to end President Nicolas Maduro’s rule and hold fresh presidential and legislative elections. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Maduro opponents claim big turnout in Venezuelan protest

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press